farmer's wife

Chapter 4 Excited

Xiao Lie repeatedly asked Nanny Li for confirmation: "Shui Zhu...is Miss Shui Zhu really, really willing to marry me?"

You are a good young man, stuttering with excitement, Li Nai smiled, "I have known you for three years, you are a good young man, that's why I gave you a good introduction in front of my eldest lady and Miss Shuizhu. Fan. Then what do you think? If you are willing, the old woman will have the cheek to be a matchmaker."

"Yes! I am willing, I wish for it!"

"Thanks for your hard work, Mother Li gave me a good word. I... I will definitely treat Miss Shuizhu well! I will definitely... I will not let her starve and work hard. Yes, if I am here for a day, she will not let her suffer. !"

"All right, all right, then I'll report back to my girl. The master's family will be returning to Beijing in early April. If there's really a wedding to be held, there's still half a month left, so we have to hurry up."

"I... I'll go back and discuss with the elders in the clan!"

As soon as the words fell, Xiao Lie ran away, and when he turned around, he almost fell with his hands and feet!
Nanny Li turned around, looked at a piece of clothes leaking from the corner of the wall, and smiled lightly: "Come out. How about it, do you like it?"

Fu Yan pursed her lips, feeling a little shy.

"Thank you, Nanny Li, for worrying about me. Shui Zhu can trust Nanny Li's vision."

"Hahaha, good! Then let's talk to the lady."

The two went back together.

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The Zhao family served as the prefect in Shizhou.

Anping Village is not far from Shizhou, about fifteen miles to Fucheng.If you go to the city to go to the market on weekdays, you will arrive in half an hour (1 hour) slowly.

Xiao Lie entered the village after only running for a quarter of an hour (30 minutes) and went straight to the village chief Sun Changgeng's house.

Xiao Lie's elders are no longer there, there is only a cruel uncle's family, but they have not been in contact with each other for a long time.

For major matters of marriage, he still had to ask the elders to talk about the trouble, so he could only have the cheek to ask the village elder.

Sun Changgeng had just returned home from the field, drank two sips of water, and his wife Zhang was preparing dinner with his daughters-in-law.

"Uncle Sun! Where's Aunt Zhang?" Xiao Lie was sweating profusely from running, panting and asking.

Hearing the shout, Aunt Zhang came out of the kitchen while wiping the water off her hands with her apron.

"What's the matter? Look at your sweaty face, what happened?" Sun Changgeng was puzzled.

"Uncle! I... I'm getting married!"

Xiao Lie scratched his head, his sunburned face was faintly red.

"Married? Whose girl!"

"Yeah, whose family is it? My aunt knows a lot of girls, just tell me, and I'll help you find out more about it!"

"Not a village girl."

Sun Changgeng led Xiao Lie to the main room to sit down and speak slowly.

"Uncle, as you know, I go to the Zhao Mansion in the city to send back furs every month. Miss Shuizhu is the eldest maid of the Zhao Mansion."

"Your magistrate...then why would the noble man in the mansion go out to find someone to marry him?" Sun Changgeng still frowned and didn't let go.

Aunt Zhang nodded and agreed: "Yes, Ariel, if you want to get married, Auntie will help you find them in our village. There are also many girls who are waiting to be married in our village. They all know the basics."

Xiao Lie was a little impatient, but he was usually stupid and not very good at arguing with others.

After thinking about it, Xiao Lie still told Uncle Sun and Aunt Zhang about Miss Shuizhu and Nanny Li passing by and borrowing money to save his younger brother three years ago.

Uncle Sun and the others knew what happened to the Xiao family three years ago, but they didn't expect that there was such a story behind it.

"This girl is good, kind-hearted! You are also destined." Aunt Zhang was soft-hearted and praised repeatedly.

Xiao Lie nodded, agreeing quite a bit, Miss Shuizhu is a kind-hearted little fairy!
"Aunt Zhang, the Zhao family has to return to Beijing in early April. The eldest daughter of the Zhao family sees that Miss Shuizhu is also old, so she wants to arrange her marriage before leaving. Mother Li helped me find a matchmaker. I am in a hurry, and there is only half of the time left. For a month, I still need Aunt Zhang to help me take care of the marriage!"

"Don't worry about that, I'm familiar with marriages." Seeing that there were only these two children left in Xiao Lie's family, and there were no elders who could take care of them, Aunt Zhang readily agreed to the happy event.

"Let's see, March 26th of this month is the day of great joy, or should we decide on this day?"

Xiao Lie nodded hastily.

"Well, in two days, I will accompany you to the house to exchange Geng Tie horoscopes. Although our family is not rich, dowry gifts are indispensable."

"Don't worry, Aunt Zhang, I'll go back and prepare the money to send to you. I'll just worry about the dowry banquet you want to buy!"

After Xiao Lie thanked the enthusiastic Uncle Sun and Aunt Zhang, he went home and got busy.

The location of Xiao's house is a bit remote, it is located in the corner of the village near the back mountain, and the neighbors are far away.

In Anping Village, where Grandpa Xiao escaped, he married a girl from the Qian family in the village.The Qian family has only one daughter, and the family's ten mu of land was given to the daughter and son-in-law.

Grandpa Xiao has two sons, the eldest son Xiao Qiang, who married Cui Xinghua from the Cui family in the village.Raised a son and a daughter. 17-year-old Xiao Dabao and 15-year-old Xiao Tian.

The second son, Xiao Shu, is Xiao Lie's father, and his mother, Li Jin, died of dystocia when giving birth to his younger brother.

Grandpa and grandma passed away early. Three years ago, Xiao Shu, who had always been weak, did not survive a severe cold.Consciously at a disadvantage, Cui Xinghua, the uncle's wife who has endured her uncle's family for many years, persuades her uncle to separate the family.Kicked the two brothers out of the house and occupied everything in the house.

The father's funeral has to be done, and the younger brother has to see a doctor when he is sick.Xiao Lie can accept the separation of the family to support his younger brother alone, but there is nothing in the separation family that will not be given to the second wife.

Cui's natal family is the main surname in the village. There are many people in the clan, and most of them are silent.

It was the village chief, Sun Changgeng, who couldn't bear to bully the two children like this, and asked the village elders to come forward to mediate.

Suppressing Boss Xiao, he divided four acres of land and three taels of silver between the two brothers.The others refused to pay a single penny.

Xiao Lie used two taels of silver to arrange a simple funeral for his father, but one tael for his younger brother's medical treatment was not enough, so he still relied on Fu Yan for help.

After taking his younger brother to see the doctor and returning to the village, he sold three acres of land to the villagers for 12 taels of silver.

Xiao Lie took the money and bought a homestead in the back of the village to build a simple earth embryo house, and the remaining less than four taels were used to buy medicine for his younger brother to see a doctor and take care of his body.

The family was in urgent need of money, so Xiao Lie started to search and hunt in the back mountains.

At the beginning, Xiao Liekong had brute force but couldn't handle it.

Later, Xiao Lie accidentally rescued the single old hunter Sun Changming. Sun Changming had a withdrawn personality and lived alone on the mountainside.After being rescued by Xiao Lie, he took Xiao Lie as his apprentice and taught him hunting skills.

Sun Changming is the distant cousin of the village chief Sun Changgeng. He has been celibate for half his life, and taking in an apprentice can provide him with retirement and support until his death. This is why Sun Changgeng treats Xiao Lie as his own nephew.

Relying on his gradually honed archery skills and strong physique, he has hunted more prey, his younger brother's health has also gradually improved, and Xiao Lie has now saved 25 taels of silver.He took out 20 taels from it, leaving only five taels for emergency needs and medicine.

Feeling the darkness, Xiao Lie sent the silver to the village chief's house.

At this time, the village chief and his wife were also arguing about his marriage.

(End of this chapter)